Amy Matthews is releasing her latest stand-up show as a vinyl record described as an ‘immersive audio experience’.

The new version of Commute With The Foxes  – which she first performed at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe – is said to combine  ‘ASMR, sound art, immersive experience, storytelling, lyrical essay, prose poetry, guided meditation and podcasting’ with her stand-up.

Matthews said: ‘It is an aural grand tour across land and time, where my voice guides the listener through the perils and joys of distraction.

‘The soundscape immerses the listener in vintage shops, medieval taverns, Antiguan beaches and 1920s bohemian households. 

‘The show explores the importance of context in an increasingly contextless digital landscape. It examines the seduction and danger of nostalgia and reviews the oversimplification of social class in the UK, as well as how we all fantasise about living in a different time without considering the reality of what that would really look like. 

‘It tackles big questions around mortality and smaller questions like, why do we put gargoyles on buildings…?’

Bonus content includes secret tracks from three sound artists, including her father, who, like Amy, has synesthesia. a neurological condition where a person experiences a blending of their senses.

In the comedian’s case it means she pictures units of time and numerical values as having an inherent colour and form, for example seeing November as purple and wide,  while the number three is orange..

A limited edition 270 copies of  Commute With The Foxes are being pressed, though it will also be released as an MP3.

Here’s a sample:

The physical disc is available for £22 from Monkey Barrel Records, or in person at launch events at Morocco Bound Bookshop in Bermondsey, South London, next Tuesday or  Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh on October 28.